Interpreting Films
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Author |
: Janet Staiger |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2020-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691216065 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691216061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Films by : Janet Staiger
Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. After proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and spectators.
Author |
: Janet Staiger |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1992-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691006164 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691006161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Films by : Janet Staiger
Political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. Alter proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent.
Author |
: Janet Staiger |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691047979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691047973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting Films by : Janet Staiger
Political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. Alter proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent.
Author |
: Ahmadou Siendou Konaté |
Publisher |
: Boucliers Publications |
Total Pages |
: 127 |
Release |
: 2019-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9782491557454 |
ISBN-13 |
: 2491557452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Viewing and Interpreting Films Otherwise by : Ahmadou Siendou Konaté
This book presents things to the reader in ways that are untraditional and different. Look is taken at the political import of the filmic productions at hand. Guiding questions will be, but are not limited to the following: why was such a film produced by a person like the producer? Does the film attain the political goal the politicalized viewer sees in it? These are the questions the author seeks to answer in the book.
Author |
: David BORDWELL |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674028531 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674028538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Meaning by : David BORDWELL
David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques--a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.
Author |
: Phillip Novak |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2020-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030447397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030447391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpretation and Film Studies by : Phillip Novak
This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie). The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and Christopher Nolan’s Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well.
Author |
: John E. O'Connor |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2016-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474281904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474281907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis American History/American Film by : John E. O'Connor
In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title will be equally valuable for students and scholars in history using film for analysis as well as film students and scholars exploring the way social and historical circumstances are reflected and represented in film.
Author |
: David Ireland |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2018-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030005061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030005062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music by : David Ireland
This book explores the concept of incongruent film music, challenging the idea that this label only describes music that is inappropriate or misfitting for a film’s images and narrative. Defining incongruence as a lack of shared properties in the audiovisual relationship, this study examines various types of incongruence between a film and its music and considers the active role that it can play in the construction of a film’s meaning and influencing audience response. Synthesising findings from research in the psychology of music in multimedia, as well as from ideas sourced in semiotics, film music, and poststructuralist theory, this interdisciplinary book provides a holistic perspective that reflects the complexity of moments of film-music incongruence. With case studies including well-known films such as Gladiator and The Shawshank Redemption, this book combines scene analysis and empirical audience reception tests to emphasise the subjectivity, context-dependency, and multi-dimensionality inherent in identifying and interpreting incongruent film music.
Author |
: Noel Carroll |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 1998-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521589703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521589703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting the Moving Image by : Noel Carroll
A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.
Author |
: Margaret Hampel |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 1947 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:319510009358140 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Films Interpreting Children and Youth, 1944-1945 by : Margaret Hampel